On April 17th, Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to start loading nuclear fuel into reactors at a decommissioned nuclear power plant located in northwest Tokyo to prepare for restarting the plant.
The nuclear power plant consists of 7 reactors spanning Kashiwazaki city and Kariwa village in Niigata Prefecture, with a total capacity of approximately 8,212 megawatts, making it one of the largest nuclear power plants globally and the largest in Japan.
Tokyo Electric stated that operations are scheduled to commence around 4 p.m. on the 15th.
However, this plan has sparked dissatisfaction among the Japanese public, with many holding protest activities outside Tokyo Electric's Niigata headquarters in the Chuo ward of Niigata city.
Prior to this, Tokyo Electric Company's latest data revealed that due to ongoing generation of new contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the volume of contaminated water has only decreased by about 19,000 tons compared to previous releases, equivalent to just 1% of the total.
Once the discharge of nuclear contaminated water begins, it is expected to continue for at least 30 years, with the crucial equipment for treating contaminated water, the "multi-nuclide removal system," exhibiting defects, a problem that has already been exposed.
